I really think you have gotten this exactly backwards if anything. It varies by college, but most are there to pass along pure knowledge and pretty much groom those who are looking at academia. That the way it was for my physics degree. My physics councilor had my degree and had no idea what jobs there were in the real world. When I went to engineering college, it was much more oriented towards at least thinking about what happens after graduation.

France and Germany. Who both coincidentally owned the oil company that was already pumping and shipping Saddam's oil. Unsurprisingly, they were also the ones that had been trying to lift sanctions on Iraq.

Russia had a say too, but they just flat out said they did't care so long as their deals with Iraq for Oil were honored by any new government.

Get with the program! If it's not your own state/county/town, then it's always "pork"!

In this case, they are talking about turning off voicemail for people who do not expect calls from the outside world. Thus, for internal customers, i.e. other employees of the same company, you email, instant message, or other internal options which have been set up by the company previously and cost less than a voicemail system.

Somebody probably figured out the cost of sending people around to each machine with a Linux disk versus an updated hardware refresh that is probably already on the budget anyway, and decided it will be cheaper to do the hardware refresh early rather than clean the computers, and then do the hardware refresh a few months later.

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

-H P Lovecraft

Ya, but in theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, they are not.

Being able to write click bait articles that will catch people's eyes on the internet for advertiser's money?

Doubtful that he'd be assassinated. More likely as in previous examples, he'd be arrested and secluded and not see a court room till he was willing to say what the government wants him to say.

The US is already metric. It was the second country after France to adopt the metric system in the 19th century. All our standard units are defined in metric units. the thing is, it just doesn't force people or industry it doesn't deal with to use it. About the only thing they could do is post signs in metric, which they have already attempted several times, and the experiments pretty much failed. Currently this in the US not using the metric system aren't because there is no reason to and for those who are, there is.

...and they'll answer "the good looking one with the motorcycle".

Technically, becoming a fascist state would require the government taking control of the corporations rather than the corporations taking control of the government, a one party government rather than two, and a nationalistic sense of ethnicity within the country (targeting enemies of the state) rather than "I got mine, fuck you" sectarian agenda. Whatever the US is working toward, it is not a fascist state, but something else, perhaps "neo-fascist". Still, we are not there yet. With respect to those that have actually survived fascist states, while observation and intelligence gathering on the population might be up there, they have yet to actually utilize it as much as they could, not that we shouldn't worry about that.

Better to think of Canada as a collection of US provinces currently tied to a future independent French speaking state.

And that few if any professionals have heard of XCF. Really, making something that is "eXperimental" in the name part of the default workflow?

...and people who find installing and keeping such ad block software up to date as tiresome as the ads themselves as they must not go to the same annoying ad infested websites as most people (probably porn).